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more than logical outcome for an ultra-dominant group

If the editorial staff of TrashTalk obviously has their eyes on the NBA Playoffs at the moment, the fact remains that when you have three pairs of eyes you use them. So, while Trae Young or Kevin Durant were busy bleeding the competition this week, irreducible Gauls and Gauls were trying in Austria, in Graz, to get a golden ticket for the Tokyo Games. We are talking about half-court, so we are talking about 3 × 3, and if the guys have failed a few inches from happiness, the girls will be fine in Japan to try to dominate the world.

Ah Austria. Land of legends. Felix Baumgartner, Niki Lauda, ​​Thomas Muster, Michael Haneke, Hermann Meier or of course Jakob Poeltl, all of them grew up – well we imagine – in the south of Germany, in the north of Italy or in the west of Hungary, in this small country as narrow in its west as it is vast in its east. In any case, this country so dear to François Feldman has seen some of the best world specialists in 3 × 3 basketball in the last few days, but yes, you know, this sport in which the Brooklyn Nets are currently excelling, during the traditional TQO (Olympic qualifying tournament), and among the forty (!) nations represented were therefore our small and small Frenchies, each with the obvious objective of offering themselves a nice round trip to the Tokyo Olympic Games in a few weeks.

Antoine Eito, Charly Pontens, Dominique Gentil and Raphael Wilson for the guys, Marie-Eve Paget, Laetitia Guapo, Migna Touré and Soana Lucet for the girls, eight soldiers and soldiers trained and trained by Richard Billant and his staff and who therefore landed with as the ultimate mission to soon visit the land of the Rising Sun. A feat to be achieved for the men, a more than solid team but with fierce competition, a confirmation to go for the women, who are not far, in 2021, to be the best 3 × 3 players in the world with including four girls in the top five in the FIBA ​​ranking, including three present last week in Graz (Guapo, Touré, Paget).

Ultimately ? Various fortunes for our two French teams. As for the boys, the march was too high a chouïa and the victory in the quarterfinals against Brazil will finally be added a first defeat in the half against the Netherlands, and another in the last chance match against the Latvians, other specialists in discipline and which will finally steal the last sesame from our brave French people, who will therefore have to wait until 2024 to participate – and obviously win – the Games, the Olympics in which they will take part at home, moreover. But fortunately for our regions, a few hours before … the fantastic four had struck. Not without difficulty, since they will have needed an extension and a saving throw from Migna Touré to get rid of the Hungarians in the quarterfinals and the celebration of a shot … missed by the Japanese to be able to finally scream their joy, to be able to explode the sign of FIBA under the drunken eyes of a kind volunteer, and above all to confirm that this group remains one of the strongest in the world.

We will therefore have a 3 × 3 team from France at the next Olympic Games, to support our two 5 × 5 teams. For the guys the outcome is pretty hardcore but 2024 remains in the sights, and for the girls it is now an Olympic medal that will have to be fetched. We say what ? We say arms, we say yours, we say bravo, and to everyone.

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